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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






2. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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3. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






4. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






5. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






6. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






7. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






8. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






9. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






10. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






11. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






12. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






13. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






14. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






15. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






16. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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17. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






18. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






19. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






21. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






22. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






23. State Board of Eduation






24. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






25. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






26. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






27. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






29. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






30. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






31. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






32. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






33. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






34. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






35. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






36. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






37. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






38. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






39. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






40. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






41. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






42. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






43. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






44. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






45. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






46. Open syllable






47. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






48. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






49. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






50. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia